Repealing Obamacare

We are already hearing from Washington that this will be “difficult.” We will hear in coming days and weeks that the White House will make it impossible. I reject these pronouncements and I am also not willing to wait on the judicial branch to rule that this law is patently unconstitutional. It is important that the people of the United States make the point that we have the final word on public policy and the actions of the legislative branch of our government.

For all these reasons I am leading a citizen campaign to overturn this destructive and unwanted law. It is called “RepealHealthcareAct.org” and we plan to raise at least five million petitions and do so much more that Congress will have no option except outright repeal. Many have said it is time to “take our country back” and this is how it begins. This was to be the “signature issue” of Mr. Obama but he failed to get our signature on the bottom line.

A new Congress will take office in January and the voice of the people was heard in the elections. Here is the rest of the story about our representative democracy. We will be telling our elected representatives what we want from them in unmistakable terms. We will not be accepting half truths, half efforts or the usual legislative escape hatches that put off to some undefined future date what we are demanding right now.

In enacting this law, politicians and lobbyists believed that they knew better than the American people. They forced upon us what we did not want to accept. It has happened before under the rule of a King George and we rejected his arrogance when we founded a new kind of nation — our United States of America. We became the hope of the world with our grand experiment and now we must renew the promise of the Founding Fathers. To do so we must teach this fundamental lesson of self-determination to our own leaders. Together, we will.

Its funny how the left always wants to point at the right, conservatives, tea party and make the accusation that we are fascists, when in fact they are the fascists/totalitarians. I think O is going to take the place of carter as the worst president and unfortunately he was also the first black president. Its to bad the first black president wasnt at least mediocre. Its to bad the people were hood winked into voting for a man they thought was one thing and in the end turned out to be something else. Thats what you get when you go with "hope and change" rather than substance.

sflbib

"That's what you get when you go with 'hope and change' rather than substance."

It's what you get when you go with eloquent oratory rather than substance. People have been falling for it since democracy was invented, the quintessential example being the traveling snake-oil salesman of the 18th century.

Gunner57

I don't think it was too bad that the first black president wasn't at least mediocre ( he was a total disaster, a disgrace) when it was obvious he was a racist and a Marxist and blacks to the tune of about 97% voted for him anyway. Shame on them for their hatred of white people. This was an act of vengeance.

bubba4

Can I get a Gunner57 of my own? I want it preprogrammed with 100 assertions from the bizarro world. I love the up is down, black is white craziness almost as much as I love my singing bass.

SALLYFARRAR

Repealing Obamacare is important but getting the economy rolling again should be foremost.
As the mother of Generation Xers who are out there slugging it out trying to make a living and support their families, I can tell you, they are having a rough go at it.

the_foriner

Ms Farrar,
If you and/or your GenXer voted for the thug, you fully deserve what came your/their way.

GoUSA

When I can hire American citizens with the expectation that they will be educated, healthy, and have heathcare for their families that won't stop dead if I have to let them go, then I will open an office in America and start hiring.

Medium Sized Businesses today don't want to be in the business of providing the soviet-style paternalistic coverage that the likes of GM once did. To attract investment and jobs, the healthcare system has to work, and work for mom and dad, not for Wall Street.

I don't care which party does it or how. All I care about is having enough of a healthcare system that my employees can focus on their jobs, and don't live in fear of being bankrupted by a minor health issue. The US healthcare system is a broken leg, and it is making a once great nation limp while the rest of the world runs, while making a few megacorporations very rich at the expense of citizens and main-street businesses.

Merlin12

I'm now retired. Spent nearly 50 years working in American businesses, small and large, and never had any problem getting health care insurance. I repeat, no small business I ever worked for had any trouble providing good insurance.

But now that we have Obamacare, we are already seeing companies DROP the insurance they provided, forcing the workers to go WITHOUT health care insurance, or at best settle for something inferior to what they had.

Y'know who some of the biggest lobbyists for single-payer were/are? Those very megacorps you seem to dislike – GM in the forefront. They've screwed up their plans so badly that they can't afford them, so the solution is a bailout ! Which will, if they were to get it, destroy the free-market system that is the envy of the world. (Did you not notice?)

wdwrkr

"my employees can focus on their jobs, and don't live in fear of being bankrupted by a minor health issue"

That may well be one of the most ridiculous staements made concerning healthare.

If you want affordable healthcare, then GET THE GOV'Y OUT OF IT! Gov't control will make healthcare affordable the same way Fannie MAE and Freedie MAC made housing affordable.

http://www.wastewatchersinc.org Richard Ahern

For example: by law our government cannot invest its money for profit and compete with free enterprise. As for universal health care, the same holds true. We are a Constitutional Republic/Not a Democracy. Article 1 Section 8 United States Constitution.http://www.judgenap.com

http://underthelemontree.me David

It is my opinion that Obamacare must be totally rejected by the Republicans to validate there bonafides. If the GOP does not step up and vigorously pursue whatever action is required, and also go after financial restraint they are squandering the advantage gained in the mid terms. The Democrats are ruthless campaigners and the GOP must learn from old Sun Tzu, understand the enemy, formulate sound strategy and lead by example. This election was a gift and full of lessons learned.
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N.K.

I'm 19, and I'm a socialist. I'm well educated, I get my facts from established, reliable sources, not from FOX news.
And you know why I love Obama so much? One basic tenet of his platform allows me to go to school on YOUR taxpayer dollars without having to also stress about paying tuition. Bush's cuts from financial aid benefits to redirect money to his illegal wars almost ruined America's future by leaving a generation uneducated, in a time where our workforce needs to be as progress-oriented and as highly educated as possible, to compete with foreign countries, ie China.
I also directly benefit from "Obamacare" (why is that used as a pejorative so much, it's a great thing!) because now I am covered on my father's insurance, even though he's never made any effort to be in my life.
No, it isn't easy living on government money in the form of food stamps, welfare, but I did it. My mother raised three children on less than $8,000 a year, you want to talk about fiscal responsibility. I get it, the poor get it better than Wall Street, which you're all fighting to protect.

frankie

Let me tell you some thing son your 19 and dont know nothing first of all socialism never work before all it does is kill people look it up in a real history book and not your nut job collage profesors book look at every country that had it millions of people died or i should say killed because of it .The goverement is not paying for you we are and my kids just got there health care bill and it went up so much with priems and deductbles that they are now going to have a hard time paying to go to the doctors .My parents were poor but they did not get a penny from goverement they worked very hard and gave there kids a gift and that gift was a work atik and we are all fine now dont know what the future brings with your socialism thou. The answer son is work hard and be inderpendit

frankie

I went to college that I payed for myself – no help from anyone- no government and no parents! Guess what I even paid for the dr. visits myself. I worked and saved from a very young child. I am so sick of people being takers and getting help for free. A word of advice – save to go to college and then go. Stop living off the faat of the land!! My daughter who did go to college – no government assistance- and we are not rich- just lost her health insurance and given a choice of one that has a HUGH deductable!! Why? So people like her can pay for free loaders like you and others!! Go to work and take responsibility for yourself!!!